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Wednesday
Feb
29
12:05 am
Cairo, highway workers close to agreement
Doron Tyler Antrim is reporting in The Daily Mail the Cairo Town Board will meet March 7 to draw up a new contract with the town's highway department workers, members of Teamsters Local 294. Workers h...
Wednesday
Feb
29
12:04 am
Student discipline dominates meeting
Audra Jornov reports in the Register Star that student discipline took center stage at the Hudson City Board of Education meeting, Mon., Feb. 27. The topic was included on the agenda following multipl...
Wednesday
Feb
29
12:03 am
Courts move to redistrict New York
[caption id="attachment_18170" align="alignright" width="350" caption="Common Cause's proposed Congressional map for the WGXC listening area."][/caption]On Mon., Feb. 27 a three-judge panel and s...
Wednesday
Feb
29
12:02 am
Camphill Ghent makes history
Emilia Teasdale writes in the Columbia Paper the Camphill Ghent retirement project is now open and operational. The 112-acre retirement housing complex located on Route 66, south of the Village of Cha...
Wednesday
Feb
29
12:01 am
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 local almanac
Today is Leap Day. From Wikipedia:February 29, known as a leap day in the Gregorian calendar, is a date that occurs in most years that are evenly divisible by 4..... Because seasons and astronomical e...
Tuesday
Feb
28
3:57 pm
Winter Storm Watch for Wednesday
The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Watch for Wednesday afternoon to Thursday afternoon. Four to eight inches of snow are possible, making for possibly the first winter snow storm on th...
Tuesday
Feb
28
12:05 am
Power plan proposal could ease local rates
Larry Rulison of the Times Union reports on a proposed Quebec-New York City electricity line that could relieve bottlenecks in the system, including those in Greene and Dutchess counties. Champlain Hu...
Tuesday
Feb
28
12:04 am
Some stolen funds returned to Kinderhook
The Columbia Paper's Emilia Teasdale reports that the Town of Kinderhook received nearly $50,000 of reimbursement from Pegeen Mulligan-Moore, for money she embezzled over the years she worked in the t...
Tuesday
Feb
28
12:03 am
Taghkanic considers costly cleanup
John Mason in the Register-Star reports that Taghkanic’s Town Board member Richard Skoda says reclaiming the potentially environmentally contaminated town garage is, “the biggest project the town is e...
Tuesday
Feb
28
12:02 am
Germantown faces school cuts and taxes
There's more on Germantown's school budget crunch in The Columbia Paper. Debby Mayer reports that School Superintendent Patrick Gabriel projected budget calls for several “full-time equivalent” positi...
Tuesday
Feb
28
12:01 am
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 local almanac
Weather right now READ TEMPERATURE IN HUDSON: On thermometer in Studio A. FAR LEFT:The temperature on the far left is from the Hawthorne Valley Farm Weather Page. MIDDLE TEMP: Cairo from Weather...
Monday
Feb
27
2:33 pm
Farming Our Future draws hundreds
Some two hundred farmers and their supporters attended the "Farming Our Future" panel on Saturday at Taconic Hills High School, according to John Mason of the Register Star. Keynote speaker Steffen Sc...
Monday
Feb
27
12:05 am
Catskill's Holcim plant will close forever
W. T. Eckert reports in The Daily Mail that Catskill's Holcim cement plant is closing permanently, according to a New York State Department of Conservation Environmental Notice Bulletin. "The Feb. 22...
Monday
Feb
27
12:04 am
McDonald discusses Greene roads
Video streaming by Ustream Ariel Zangla of The Daily Freeman reports on the live webstream the paper hosted Fri., Feb. 24 with NY Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald. She ad...
Monday
Feb
27
12:03 am
Local schoolhouses added to Nat'l Register
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="609" caption="Schoolhouse No. 5 in Delaware County. Photo from NRHP."][/caption]The Potter Hollow School House on County Route 354 in the Town of Rensselaervil...
Monday
Feb
27
12:02 am
Abramovic's performance art museum and hotel?
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Shohei Shigematsu via Art Info, courtesy OMA."][/caption]Janelle Zara in Art Info interviews lead architect Shohei Shigematsu, "the man at the hel...
Monday
Feb
27
12:01 am
Monday, February 27, 2012 local almanac
Weather right now READ TEMPERATURE IN HUDSON: On thermometer in Studio A. FAR LEFT:The temperature on the far left is from the Hawthorne Valley Farm Weather Page. MIDDLE TEMP: Cairo from Weather...
Sunday
Feb
26
11:26 pm
Shearwater stops by WGXC
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Jonathan Meiberg from Shearwater, on WGXC Sun., Feb. 26. Photo by Ron Diamondstein."][/caption]Jonathan Meiberg from Shearwater stopped by the WGX...
Saturday
Feb
25
12:47 pm
Phonecia pirate radio
Violet Snow in the Woodstock Times reports that Michael Koegel in Phoenica has ordered a broadcast transmitter kit over the internet, and is looking for someone to help him solder it together. He says...
Friday
Feb
24
9:17 pm
High Wind Warning through Saturday
The National Weather Service issued a High Wind Warning for Greene and Columbia counties through 7 p.m. Sat., Feb. 25. Expect winds between 20 and 40 mph and gusts up to 65 mph.